About

Saransh Gupta is a skilled software engineer with a passion for building business-driven and web-based software products. He has a strong background in algorithmic programming, system design, and a holistic approach towards on-the-go learning. Saransh graduated from BITS Pilani with a B.E.(Hons.) focused in Computer Science and Minor in Finance in 2017. Saransh has worked on a variety of multi-disciplinary projects, including back-end software engineering, security, full-stack web development, and game development. He has a proven track record of delivering components of large-scale systems as well as developing independent software products. Saransh is always eager to learn new skills and leverage them to build interesting products. He enjoys being part of ambitious product teams and taking on responsibilities for both technical and strategic decisions pertinent to the software development process. Currently, Saransh works as a Research Intern at egovernments foundation. Previously, he worked as an Associate Software Engineer at Symantec, where he was part of the STAR (Security Technology and Response) team. His responsibilities included research and software development, optimizing algorithmic flows, mitigating risks, and improving the efficacy of functional security products. Saransh also migrated legacy systems to AWS and extended Apache Superset to develop a full-stack threat intelligence portal. He has worked on back-end features/components of the customer submission workflow, operational reporting and url analysis tools, and designing Feed/Crawler-as-a-service. Saransh has also worked as a back-end engineer in DevOps teams, designing workflows and building customized Ubuntu/Windows AWS-AMI's for ElasticBeanstalk and EC2. Saransh has also worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Symantec, where he designed a non-didactic security game that aimed to teach the nuances of various security vulnerabilities and social engineering trickeries to regular computer users. He built a full-stack extensible scaffolding for the web-based 2.5D game that would familiarize players with cyber-attacks such as phishing, clickjacking, identity theft, cross-site scripting, and malware attacks through gameplay. Saransh holds a Master of Arts - MA in Liberal Studies in Computer Science from Ashoka University, a CORe Credential of Readiness from Harvard Business School Online, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies from Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering - B.E.(Hons.)